Citations:libertopia

English citations of libertopia and Libertopia

Noun: "(US, politics, chiefly derogatory) a hypothetical utopian libertarian society or nation-state"

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• 1995 February 6, Mike Huben, “Re: Why I am a member of the Libertarian Party”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[1] (Usenet):

  The libertarian utopian fantasy is that we can all be isolate to an arbitrary degree. That's why there'll never be a libertopia: there'll always be somebody ready to disprove your isolation over your dead body.

• 1995 February 15, Mike Huben, “Re: LP Challenge to GOP”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[2] (Usenet):

  But as long as your libertopia is imaginary, I guess you can't be bothered to imagine that it is imperfect.

• 1995 March 26, Roland Mechler, “Re: Declaration of the Rights of Netizens Proposed - Ideas wanted”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[3] (Usenet):

  A functioning society where there is *zero* infringement on the rights of others exists only in Libertopia. When you can tell me where Libertopia is, I'll be listening.

• 1996 February 27, Jerod Pore, “Libertarian Questions”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[4] (Usenet):

  Anyway, Libertopia is probably not going to happen anytime soon. Publicly funded schools will be around for all of our lives. What we can achieve is more choice in schools.

• 1996 April 28, Thomas F Brown, “Re: Humanity & Property”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[5] (Usenet):

  You employ a very restricted definition of threat. A person who cannot afford to lose his job would probably consider himself threatened in this scenario.
  In libertopia, extortion and sexual harassment seem to be legal, according to your limited definition of "force".

• 1997 May 6, Julia R. Cochrane, “Re: VOLUNTEERISM and RENT”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[6] (Usenet):

  As a libertarian, it's one of the more interesting issues to me in contemplating "libertopia."

• 1997 November 18, BretCahill, “Who Reads Canned Nazispam?”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[7] (Usenet):

  I have yet to see one libertopist explain how indigents have real rights in libertopia.

• 1997 November 29, BretCahill, “School Vouchers In Action, NY Times Report”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[8] (Usenet):

  Of couse, if you believe all men are angels, then you also believe evil censors don't exist, and government regulations won't be necessary in libertopia.

• 1999 April 6, BretCahill, “Re: More Taxes => More Liberty => More Prosperity”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[9] (Usenet):

  But libertopists believe libertopia will just break out someday . . .

• 2002 August 15, Scott Douglas, “Re: Libertarian support for Child Molestation”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[10] (Usenet):

  In Libertopia are rights universal or not? And if they are, do you conclude that a 9 year old is not within it's rights to sexually prostitute itself since Libertairan ideology holds that doing so is protected commerce?

• 2003 May 4, Siobhan Medeiros, “Sorry Commies. Americans Cannot Be Charged For War Crimes”, in talk.politics.libertarian‎^[11] (Usenet):

  In "libertopia" it would be easy for large corporation to institute large-scale oppression.